English
Noun
shotgun shack
- colloquial, idiom A house with no internal barrier between the front and back doors.
Quotations
2004: Familiar in working-class neighborhoods all over the South, the â��shotgunâ�� name reflects the fact a bullet fired at the front door could pass right out the back door, travelling the full length of the narrow house without ever encoutering any obstructions. — Duncan Spencer in The Hill, November 8, 2004
The shotgun name reflects the fact that the shot fired from a shotgun through the front door would likely strike and possibly kill all inhabitants within. Donald Clark, Sep.8, 2005
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